3S0 TENANTS OF AN OLD FARM. 



Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws 

 Makes that and the action fine." 



The lazy person is always an unfortunate person, 

 usually an unhappy and often a wicked one. The poet 

 Spencer, in his ' Faerie Queene,' has well called ' Sluggish 

 Idlenesse the Nourse of Siune.' 



" There is another lesion which I may venture to 

 refer to, though I must ask the religious leader at my 

 side to enlarge upon it. It is a lesson of forethought 

 of that Future which lies before all souls. Old age, 

 misfortune, and death hasten upon man like the AViuter 

 of the year. Would you lay up in Heaven a store of 

 good deeds — a treasure which cannot be stolen and will 

 not decay ? Begin now ! ' Remember now thy Creator 

 in the days of thy youth, ere the evil days come.' This 

 is the harvest time for you — for us all. Use it to form 

 a character that shall stand the test of an Eternal 

 Judge, and to do deeds of goodness, righteousness, 

 purity, truthfulness, honor, which shall bless not only 

 yourselves but the generation in wliicli you live. A 

 recent author thus begins his book : ' Some things God 

 gives often, some he gives but once. The seasons come 

 and go and the floAvers change with the months, but 

 youth comes twice to none.' If the temptation should 

 come to you to defer to another, and yet further, and 

 yet more distant day, the duty of laying up store of 

 spiritual wealth — noble character, kindly deeds and im- 

 mortal Hope through the Saviour of all, then remem- 

 ber the teachin;]: of our iiumble insect friends. 'Goto 



